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Provenance
Mr and Mrs Roy Hewlett, April 1964
With Piccadilly Gallery, London, by whom presented to
Amnesty International
Sale; Sotheby's, 18 January 1984, lot 298
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, 1932, cat.no.3 (as Nicholas)
This is a head-and-shoulders portrait of Nicholas Mavrogordato, the eldest son of Gertler's close friend John Mavrogordato, painted while Gertler was staying with the family in Dorset in 1931. Writing on New Year's Day to his wife, Marjorie, Gertler states 'This morning I started a portrait of Nicholas'. He follows on the 10th of January with 'I have finished my portrait of Nicholas, not a bad little picture in its way' (unpublished letters).